A 1st for me, a Lulworth Skipper, they are one of the smallest of the UK’s butterflies. It has a very restricted range in the extreme south of Dorset, where it can be found in good numbers along a stretch of coast centred on the village of Lulworth, where the species was first discovered in 1832.

My picture is of a female, near Winspit. Females can be distinguished from other skippers by the pale orange ‘sun-ray’ markings on their forewings, whereas the males have darker-brown, almost olive coloured wings .

They can be seen from early June to mid-August.